Heavy Water

Author : Per F Dahl
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000948366
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heavy Water and the Wartime Race for Nuclear Energy written by Per F Dahl and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heavy water (deuterium oxide) played a sinister role in the race for nuclear energy during the World War II. It was a key factor in Germany's bid to harness atomic energy primarily as a source of electric power; its acute shortage was a factor in Japan's decision not to pursue seriously nuclear weaponry; its very existence was a nagging thorn in the side of the Allied powers. Books and films have dwelt on the Allies' efforts to deny the Germans heavy water by military means; however, a history of heavy water has yet to be written. Filling this gap, Heavy Water and the Wartime Race for Nuclear Energy concentrates on the circumstances whereby Norway became the preeminent producer of heavy water and on the scientific role the rare isotope of hydrogen played in the wartime efforts by the Axis and Allied powers alike. Instead of a purely technical treatise on heavy water, the book describes the social history of the subject. The book covers the discovery and early uses of deuterium before World War II and its large-scale production by Norsk Hydro in Norway, especially under German control. It also discusses the French-German race for the Norwegian heavy-water stocks in 1940 and heavy water's importance for the subsequent German uranium project, including the Allied sabotage and bombing of the Norwegian plants, as well as its lesser role in Allied projects, especially in the United States and Canada. The book concludes with an overall assessment of the importance and the perceived importance of heavy water for the German program, which alone staked everything on heavy water in its quest for a nuclear chain reaction.

Author : Martin Amis
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307787397
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heavy Water written by Martin Amis and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-01-05 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wickedly delightful collection of stories establishing Amis as one of the most versatile and gifted writers of his generation. "Martin Amis is a force unto himself.... There is, quite simply, no one else like him."—The Washington Post "Martin Amis is a stone-solid genius...a dazzling star of wit and insight." —The Wall Street Journal Martin Amis once again demonstrates why he is a modern master of the short story form. In "Career Move," screenwriters struggle for their art, while poets are the darlings of Hollywood. In "Straight Fiction," the love that dare not speak its name calls out to the hero when he encounters a forbidden object of desire—the opposite sex. And in "State of England," Mal, a former "minder to the superstars," discovers how to live in a country where "class and race and gender were supposedly gone."

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Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847845117
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dustin Yellin written by and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive survey of contemporary artist Dustin Yellin, showcasing his surreal glass sculptures with fantastic dystopian themes. For the past decade, Dustin Yellin has been dazzling the art world with his large-scale glass sculptures, which transport collage to another dimension. These ambitious works are created through an innovative technique using the atmosphere itself as material. With a precise and painstaking process, multi-dimensional images grow from successive planes of multiple stacked panels of glass, each individually embellished with bizarre found objects and eccentric clippings from diverse sources—with references to historical events and popular culture—to create intricate, three-dimensional collages that bring to mind giant psychedelic paperweights. This elegant volume includes details of the works, which take on an abstract cinematic quality, as well as a sixteen-page acetate insert illustrating a cross section of one of the glass sculptures.

Author : Dan Kurzman
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 9780805032062
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood and Water written by Dan Kurzman and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 1997-01-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of how a desperate clandestine mission in Norway ended the Nazi dream of building the atomic bomb.

Author : International Atomic Energy Agency
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heavy Water Reactors written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outlines the characteristics of heavy water reactors and provides an insight into the technology for specialists in countries where the establishment of nuclear power programmes is being considered. This report should serve as a reference for engineers and scientists working in the field, as well as for lecturers in nuclear technology.

Author : Jostein Berglyd
Publisher : Leandoer and Eckholm
ISBN 13 : 9789197589598
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Operation Freshman written by Jostein Berglyd and published by Leandoer and Eckholm. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 1943, the heavy water plant in Vermork/Rjukan, which Hitler needed for the making of the atomic bomb, was made useless by a combined British/Norwegian sabotage operation. There had been an earlier attempt, in 1942, to sabotage the plant. It was known as Operation Freshman. This book describes both these operations.

Author : Richard Wiggan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Operation Freshman written by Richard Wiggan and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angrebet, der blev udført med 2 glidere trukket af Halifax-fly, endte i en tragedie. 1 fly og 2 glidere havererede, og de overlevende blev henrettet i henhold til en netop modtaget hemmelig "Führerbefehl".

Author : Sanjay K. Sharma
Publisher : Royal Society of Chemistry
ISBN 13 : 1849738858
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heavy Metals In Water written by Sanjay K. Sharma and published by Royal Society of Chemistry. This book was released on 2014 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the latest research on dissolved heavy metals in drinking water and their removal.

Author : R. Cohen-Adad
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 148328557X
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alkali Metal and Ammonium Chlorides in Water and Heavy Water (Binary Systems) written by R. Cohen-Adad and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume surveys the data available in the literature for solid-fluid solubility equilibria plus selected solid-liquid-vapour equilibria, for binary systems containing alkali and ammonium chlorides in water or heavy water. Solubilities covered are lithium chloride, sodium chloride, potassium chloride, rubidium chloride, caesium chloride and ammonium chloride in water and heavy water.

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Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128220546
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors: CANDU, the seventh volume in the JSME Series on Thermal and Nuclear Power Generation series, provides a comprehensive and complete review of a single type of reactor in a very accessible and practical way. The book presents the full lifecycle, from design and manufacturing to operation and maintenance, also covering fitness-for-service and long-term operation. It does not relate to any specific vendor-based technology, but rather provides a broad overview of the latest technologies from a variety of active locations which will be of great value to countries invested in developing their own nuclear programs. Including contemporary capabilities and challenges of nuclear technology, the book offers practical solutions to common problems faced, along with the safe and approved processes to reach suitable solutions. Professionals involved in nuclear power plant lifecycle assessment and researchers interested in the development and improvement of nuclear energy technologies will gain a deep understanding of PHWR nuclear reactor physics, chemistry and thermal-hydraulic properties. Provides a complete reference dedicated to the latest research on Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors and their economic and environmental benefits Goes beyond CANDU reactors to analyze the popular German and Indian designs, as well as plant design in Korea, Romania, China and Argentina Spans all phases of the nuclear power plant lifecycle, from design, manufacturing, operation, maintenance and long-term operation